March, 2009

Re-posting with permission from Jan at http://blogs.msdn.com/project_programmability/archive/2009/03/27/do-you-epmu.aspx and Christophe at http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2009/03/25/microsoft-enterprise-project-management-at-teched-north-america-2009.aspx

TechEd North America 2009?

TechEd North America 2009 is just around the corner on May 11-15, Los Angeles, CA; please find below the EPM content that will be delivered:

We will also have a dedicated EPM booth/kiosk staffed by product experts to answer your questions and demo our products and solutions so don’t be shy and swing by! We look forward to see you in LA in May.

Do you EPMU?

Microsoft EPM University offers a comprehensive 4 to 5 days educational package for customers and partners who want to quickly ramp-up with EPM solution via rich instructor led online experience.

The courses are designed to build and enhance the required knowledge to successfully plan, deploy, configure and extend Microsoft Office EPM solution. You can review course details, schedules and register for the course of your choice. The courses currently being offered are:

• Admin Professional - Functional Implementation & Configuration

• IT Professional - Technical Implementation & Configuration

• Office Project Server 2007 Developer Training

• Deploying Office Project Portfolio Server 2007

You get access to EPMU’s virtual classroom environment that includes a professional instructor and hosted computer environment to run your labs on.

Check out the schedule and  be sure to register soon to get a spot in the class! The very last class begins in June 2009!

Well new to blogging anyway.  Doug McCutcheon has joined the realm of Project bloggers with particular focus on our partner community.  Welcome Doug, go visit his blog and perhaps we’ll even find out what ate his cat???

http://blogs.technet.com/doug_mccutcheon/

I’ve posted this as an update on my December Cumulative Update article, but think it worth posting afresh too.  Thanks Shazeb for bringing to my attention.

If you are running MOSS with Project you should NOT load the December CU for MOSS as it has been withdrawn because of a search issue that is resolved in the February CU. 

For full details of the issue please see http://blogs.msdn.com/joerg_sinemus/archive/2009/03/26/moss-december-cu-960011-is-not-available-anymore.aspx and for details of the Feb CU see http://blogs.msdn.com/brismith/archive/2009/03/13/project-server-2007-cumulative-update-for-february-2009.aspx

I had a change around over the weekend and moved away from my blatant copy of Keith Comb’s site and got my own identity.  Basically still mostly copied from Keith (thanks Keith) – but with some new colors.  I’ll get around to updating my picture too – perhaps some spring flowers?

Also changed today is the map, as Worldmaps has moved I am moving with them and starting afresh.  For anyone interested in stats for the last 7 months - my most Westerly reader was in Kauai, Hawaii, most Northerly in Boden, Sweden, Easterly in Suva, Fiji and Southerly in Dunedin, New Zealand.  5% of my readers are within 100 miles, and 88% over 1000 miles away!

The location that most confused me was the strong readership in the Isle of Man, which is an Island in the Irish Sea and part of the U.K. It is a big tourism and finance center (motorcycle fans have probably heard of it).  I assumed the Isle was totally populated with project managers – until I realized the .IM internet domain suffix owned by the Isle of Man probably has a life beyond the Irish Sea…

I’ve answered a few comments on recent blog postings on the recent CU release, but thought I’d post again to clear up any misunderstandings.

• Since December all CUs are included the Infrastructure Update
• WSS CU contains its update
• Project Server CU contains its update
• MOSS Server is the name of the server rollup – and contains the SharePoint and Project Server update, but NOT WSS.  I’ve suggested MOSS Server package may not be the best name – watch this space.
• You only need to load SP1 and the latest CU (Both WSS and either Project Server or MOSS Server recommended)
• There was a client/server dependency introduced earlier in the product lifecycle post SP1 so you should also load the client CU for Project.
• Specific details of this dependency - There was a change to both the client and server scheduling engine that requires that you be at a certain hotfix level for both the client and the server.  These versions are 952000 for the Server and 952067 for the client.  If your hotfix number is greater than this then you should be fine.  Additionally, these fixes were included in both the Infrastructure Update and every subsequent CU that has been released so you will be fine if you have any one of these installed for both the client and the server.
• At the time of writing Project is not listed in the overall Office KB article for the February Cumulative Update http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963654 – this is an omission and is being corrected.